The dreaded call comes in – it’s daycare, my son is sick. I get off the phone and feel panicky. I open my calendar. There is no way I can leave today, I have 2 important client meetings and my monthly meeting with my boss. It feels like my boys are never sick when I have a contingency plan, but when I don't expect it - that's when it happens. That's why it's so important to have a plan.

You know those total disaster days – the kinds of days where it feels like nothing is going right and everything is stacked against you? I’m having one of those days. But would you believe that I feel genuinely happy? Here’s how that happened - and you can have it too